Nicola Coughlan

Biography

Nicola Coughlan is an Irish actress known for her roles as Clare Devlin in the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls and Penelope Featherington in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton. She earned a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for playing the lead role of Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton's third season, and received a British Academy Television Award nomination for her role in Big Mood. Born on January 9, 1987, in Galway, Ireland, Coughlan trained at Oxford School of Drama and Birmingham School of Acting.